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Doug Colwell Senior Member Registered: October 2003 Location: Alberta Posts: 157 users gallery	Had all these selections, so I gave it a shot. Couldn't find much on the internet as far as uniform color for the time period but the blue piping on white pants was mentioned, and I saw one colorized pic with a bluish visor cap. Found another reference that suggested khaki so I re-submitted. Less saturation on blue window. Tweaked skin-tones.
	· Date: 4/3/2004 · Views: 10739 · Filesize: 56.7kb, 206.0kb · Dimensions: 800 x 682 ·
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Matt Roberts

Junior Member

Registered: December 2002
Location: Australia

4/4/2004 8:54am

Succesfully coloring a photo this old is damn hard.
This looks good and I like the khaki color uniforms.
Only one small thing, I think the blue window glass
looks a bit over-saturated in relation to the rest of the photo.

Like that tree - but only in color.

Matt

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Doug Colwell
Senior Member

Registered: October 2003
Location: Alberta
Posts: 157

4/4/2004 12:23pm

Thanks Matt, you were right about the window (wasn't as noticeable when the boys were blue). As for the tree... I couldn't decide what to do with it so I left it for 'posterity'.

Marc

Junior Member

Registered: January 2004
Location: Leverkusen, Germany
Posts: 13

4/4/2004 2:34pm

Woah, cool bananas!
Except from the skin tones it could go almost for a real color picture.

Doug Colwell
Senior Member

Registered: October 2003
Location: Alberta
Posts: 157

4/4/2004 7:11pm

Thanks Marc. You were right, I did some more research and discovered that they didn't have orange tanning cream in 1904 Africa. Tweaked the skin-tones as best I could (this color stuff is still over my head). I noticed too how filthy the bottle guy's pants are, but I'm sure Matt will wash and iron them if he colors your pic.

Flora

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Registered: March 2002
Location: Milan, Italy
Posts: 2,323

4/5/2004 7:21am

WOW.... Great!

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Doug Colwell
Senior Member

Registered: October 2003
Location: Alberta
Posts: 157

4/6/2004 12:02am

Thanks Flora.

creartist1971
Junior Member

Registered: April 2004
Location: Bremen/Germany
Posts: 7

4/19/2004 2:41pm

hi,

this is amazing...
Where is the tutorial for it:-)?? *grin*

Doug Colwell
Senior Member

Registered: October 2003
Location: Alberta
Posts: 157

4/19/2004 8:52pm

Thank you creartist1971. Here's my tutorial, (which includes everything I know about colorizing). Select, new layer, mode colorize, paint-bucket and adjust hue/saturation and opacity.

Timbo

Junior Member

Registered: July 2004
Location: Sheffield UK

8/3/2004 5:54am

Through my eyes, I can only say this is simply outstanding. Awesome stuff. I've never tried the colour mode.....I'm going to give it a go now. Thanks for the tip.

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Doug Colwell
Senior Member

Registered: October 2003
Location: Alberta
Posts: 157

8/4/2004 11:47pm

Thank you Timbo.

E Berlin
Junior Member

Registered: May 2007
Location: Washington, DC Metro area

5/14/2007 11:44am

Why not just call it "Afrakhaki?"

Doug Colwell
Senior Member

Registered: October 2003
Location: Alberta
Posts: 157

5/14/2007 7:52pm

Done.

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